Raymond Williams is a famous author, critic and academic. Williams released a variety of novels and studies on culture and society, one of his focuses being the idea of social realism. He suggested the main features that are supposedly (and understandably) needed to create something that is correctly class as socially realist. Put into the context of film, here are some of the required aspects and characteristics;
Another person called Tori Amos once said,
Another person called Tori Amos once said,
"Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about."
I believe this to relate to social realism films because they are always filled with conflicts, problems and bad scenarios which aren't far off from most of our realities. We spend a lot of time complaining about things going wrong in our lives, yet we find it hard and hesitate to change any of it. I believe this suggests why all social realism genre based films have quite negative themes within them; to point the fact out that they are out reality and that even when we can, as viewers and observers, see the problems occurring and relate to them, we still don't stop to live in that type of world regardless to the awareness you may now have.
This also relates to another quote I came across from someone called Jean Cocteua who said;
"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
This also supports and links to the previous quote and idea I got from it, as it also suggests the idea that what we see in social realism genre films are actually our reality, however we might not entirely notice or take in any awareness of what we have just seen. From what should shock us is seen as normal to people in this day and age.
That is what realism is about. The times a person or people live in; their reality. Just like Raymond Willaims said, it's about the reality that people live in during their contemporary/modern times. Society has it's ways which are considered as normal and reality deals with the views in different ways.
I will continue on with my research by researching social realism directors and specialists.
This also relates to another quote I came across from someone called Jean Cocteua who said;
"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
This also supports and links to the previous quote and idea I got from it, as it also suggests the idea that what we see in social realism genre films are actually our reality, however we might not entirely notice or take in any awareness of what we have just seen. From what should shock us is seen as normal to people in this day and age.
That is what realism is about. The times a person or people live in; their reality. Just like Raymond Willaims said, it's about the reality that people live in during their contemporary/modern times. Society has it's ways which are considered as normal and reality deals with the views in different ways.
I will continue on with my research by researching social realism directors and specialists.
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